August 18, 2017 general

As we celebrated Healthy by Nature’s 20^th Anniversary show last week, I hoped to pack in more content than the hour would allow. When reality sank in, I promised to follow up this week with some of the clips (in bold) and other information that we didn’t get to.

As I scoured the archives and converted old cassette tapes to digital (with the help of Jim Barto at Salem Broadcasting) I was amazed that information we broadcast in 1997 is still so important today. Next week I will list more of the game-changing guests and topics (and some links to interviews) that it has been my privilege to showcase. Studies show that it typically takes 40 years for a scientific breakthrough to get from the laboratory into everyday practice. I guess that is why our long-time listeners often tell me how they have benefited from hearing those guests and being ahead of the curve.

FOOD – The 2-minute audio clip from an interview with Sally Fallon, author of Nourishing Traditions is remarkable. She talks about the work of a pioneering dentist who traveled the world. He found that populations eating their native diets (which contained prized fats) were healthy and did not need braces or other dental work. When those folks moved to cities, they acquired Western diseases and their children had dental issues. We did air the clips from Robert Atkins, MD about bread and the one from Paul Stitt (the food industry whistle-blower) about the 23 appetite stimulants added to some processed foods. But they are worth repeating.

MEDICAL CARE – We didn’t have the 3+ minutes this clip from Gary Null, PhD would have taken, but it is a shocker. It is just one highlight of a show about a report, Death by Medicine, that this health guru and his cohorts compiled. It details and substantiates statistics from scientific studies about problems in modern medical practice. The combination of side effects of drugs given in hospitals, medical mistakes, unwarranted surgeries, hospital-induced infections and malnutrition plus others add up to an astonishing number. The total makes medical problems the number one cause of premature death in the US. In the whole interview with Gary Null, he also discusses the shocking lack of science to support chemotherapy for many types of cancer.

GRATITUDE. I thanked a lot of folks who have helped make the show possible. Of special note are sponsors Dr. Ohhira’s Probiotics, Jarrow Formulas, Kyolic Aged Garlic, Lily of the Desert, The Kotsanis Institute and Bill Sardi, who while not a sponsor in the usual sense has been very supportive.

NONSENSE. These clips were just for fun: The train that came right beside our studio in the first year. Me mispronouncing a guest name and another. Gary Null making it clear he could handle the interview without me. (He clearly could.)